Les deux pigeons
Subtitle: ballet en trois actes, d'après la fable de La Fontaine par Henry Régnier & Louis Mérante
By: musique de André Messager
Contributors: Mérante, Louis, 1828-1887, scenarist, choreographer; Régnier, Henri de, 1864-1936, scenarist; La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695, author
Publisher: Enoch, Frères & Costallat, 27 bould. des Italiens, 27
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Paris
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Ballets; Piano scores
Work titles: Deux pigeons;
Notes: For solo piano; originally for orchestra.

Ballet in 3 acts.

Plot by Henry Régnier and Louis Mérante, based on a fable by Jean de La Fontaine; original ballet choreographed by Louis Mérante. Source: International Encyclopedia of Dance.

At head of title: "Théâtre national de l'opéra"--t.p.

"Paris, Imp: Dupré, rue du Delta, 26"--p. 117, lower right.

Includes dedication, prelim. p.[2]: "A Camille Saint-Saëns, témoignage d'admiration et de reconnaissance. André Messager."

Includes second title page with list of original performers, set designers, and costume designers--prelim. p [3].

"Representé pour la première fois, à Paris, le 18 octobre 1886"--prelim. p [3].

Includes stage directions in French.

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John Laurence Seymour Fund.